WinXP Errors FIX Problem?

[mastertech01]

Well this is rather difficult to explain, but here goes. I have a SCSI raid array that I run WinXP Pro on my home workstation. I have installed the OS several times on this array. I have to install Win2k because of the way the array controller has to be setup and then upgrade to WinXP. In each of these installs after the OS is finished being installed and the basic programs installed and updates completed I do a defrag of the system. In each case the defrag ends with about an inch and a half freespace gap from the beginning of the graph to the beginning of the stored data files that are defragged. You can click on the link below to see what I mean, its represented by the before defrag in the first image. This evening I suddenly had an error on my system while retreving email. It read like this "Thor Conn Wnd Class: Outlook Exe. Application Error the instruction 0x450f2853 referrenced memory at 0x450f2853- The required data was not placed into memory because of an IO error Staus 0xc 0000185 Click OK to terminate program". When this occured my system became very unstable and then rebooted... it then ran Check Disk on its own... locked up...rebooted then did Check disk again. It then showed numerous "orphan" files recovered and repaired the disk. 0 bad sectors and rebooted. After getting back into windows I decided to do a defrag. This first image shows the result. After all this time with that free space at the beginning of the graph, WinXP decides to finally use it! You can see the final result of this initial defrag.

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Now I then went to all my programs and opened them to see if they all still worked. Everyone of them worked fine and opened even faster than they had in the past. Only one program of all on my system had to repair itself, MS Photo Draw and even that was a quick repair. After that repair was done it opened and operated just fine like all the rest. I then went back and defragged again the below is a PIC of that final result. Even looks better. Now system works just fine, all programs work fine and all is very stable. Can anyone explain what WinXP did here? Is this all part of NTFS indexing and it simply corrected itself?

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[AKA]

Thats a good question and I have no answer.

But I have seen the same thing on my computer about the defraging.
Seems like the more you do it the better it does it.

Maybe its because of where the page file is initially or certain files it cant move because it needs to move the others. And then when you do it again.. it has the ability to move those files? Beats me.

 

[mastertech01]

Yes, Ive always ran defrag twice to make sure its as good as it gets. But I cant understand why it was always skipping the data area shown in the first PIC at the top.. Even after double or triple defrags that area always would show free space in the previous installations, and this one as well till that error came up yesterday for some reason. Now it doesnt.

 

[mastertech01]

Well the final answer is in... and its not a happy one. I just continued to get errors and last night HAL.dll was lost.. couldnt even boot to windows. So I low level formatted the raid array and reinstalled windowsXP. Ive been up for about 6 hours without error now, so I dont know if it was hardware or software or virus as of yet. Back to normal for now anyway.